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Devcoin Accomplishments

Since its inception in August 2011, Devcoin has supported a wide range of ideas and concepts. The project's aim has always been to reward any kind of Open Source work. Devcoin developers are not the only developers receiving Devcoins, and cryptocurrencies are not the only free open-source projects to benefit from Devcoin. In the early days of electronic currencies things started with the establishment of the required infrastructure, building on that with growing interest and utility, and more recently has catalysed shared human and tech resources into accelerating progress.

Devcoin is about collaboration so please highlight your own or others' notable Devcoin-enabled accomplishments in the forum and they'll be added to the timeline.

Bounties

2011

Development of Groupcoin - Groupcoin - Sourceforge
Groupcoin was the testing ground for Devcoin's innovative distribution and reward methods.

Bounty funding to an early cryptocurrency exchange - Vircurex
Vircurex was one of the first exchanges facilitating the exchange of alternative currencies.

Development of an open-source Wiki - Devtome
Devtome was introduced as a central portal to promote sharing of work and ideas under Creative Commons.

2012

Merged Mining Implementation - Merged Mining
Originally developed for Namecoin, merged mining enables Bitcoin miners to mine for Devcoins at the same time. Devcoin's unique receiver-file technicalities required changes and testing, with a successful result ensuring network security without additional hardware or computing power.

Directed Open Transactions funding - Open Transactions
The key Devcoin concept is that 90% of generation goes to a useful cause. Development was made with a blockchain because it offered a secure backend. Open Transactions offers a workable backup for Devcoin, and the developers were among the first to be added as regular developer recipients. A Devcoin grant was added to the Open Transactions Client for Grandmas bounty.

Implementation of an Open Transactions Exchange Server - Digitalis Open Transactions Server
Functioning as an exchange, the server offers opprtunities in markets for assets, bonds, commodities, cryptocoins, deeds and shares as well as Devcoin trading.

Funding for Devcoin promoting and financed companies - Galactic Milieu metagame
The Galactic Milieu is a metagame utilising various free open-source games as components (Crossfire RPG, Freeciv and Battle for Wesnoth). Open Transactions servers and cryptocurrencies are used to fund entities, gameplay and financing infrastrucure, with the aim of bringing in real revenue on top of cold storage currency reserves to support the project. Galactic Milieu

Extra Payout Mining Pool Tool - Blisterpool
This tool calculates the total value of alt-coins merge mined based on market prices, and calculates the proportional payout per bitcoin mining address as reported by a running p2pool node. It gives prices in terms of each alt-currency that the server merge-mines, as well as in bitcoins, so the miner can be paid in whichever coin is appropriate for the pool operator/miner.https://github.com/hunterbunter/p2pool-merged-payout-tool

News and information site with project information - Devcoin Project
Devcoin Projects provides regular news and links to projects at various stages of development, with a monthly news subscription service and chatrooms.

Devcoin Auction Site - Devcoin Auctions
The Devcoin Auctions business provides a service where users can buy labeled consumer products. It's aligned to the goals of Devcoin but in tune to financial results to ensure self-sustaininability, while also giving people jobs as well as using profits to buy Devcoins and build a Community Fund. This will then be used to fund other open-source projects that the community deems fit for its contribution. Affiliate link

New Insight Devcoin Blockchain Explorer - Devcoinblockexplorer
Insight is an open-source Devcoin (Bitcoin) blockchain explorer with complete REST and websocket APIs that can be used for writing web wallets and other apps that need more advanced blockchain queries than provided by devcoind RPC. http://github.com/bitpay/insight

Possibilities

Devcoin Community Fund
A non-blockchain portal for the community to collaborate, advertise work and services, and pool resources. A DVCBank built on the Cyclos online payment system offers one possibility.

Open-Source Wiki

Contributors on Devtome receive Devcoins for writing, written design and documentation, lyrics, screenplays and more. Plus a share of advertising revenue. Works range from Anthropology to the Arts, and from Poetry to Programming. The long term goal is a self-sustaining repository of knowledge and creativity, with minimal barriers or gatekeeping under CC BY-SA 3.0. Google Analytics was introduced to Devtome on June 26, 2013.

2014

Devtome Writers Award promoting and encouraging excellence in writing with an open public vote. DVC prizes in an online writing competition and a showcase for work; hopefully the first of many.

Developer & Project Funding

Devcoin funds open-source projects with bounties for accomplishments and regular payments for collaborative and sole developers; supporting developers when they develop, not if they don't. Current developer lists can be found here and here:

Jasinlee (Hardware and Software related to PCB, MIT): Aura Open source PCB to be used on any ASIC. Designed to handle a wide range of voltage so it can easily be modified to match any upcoming ASICs.
Project Homepage: Aura Miner - Universalish PCB Project

Linlin (Hardware and Software related to PCB, MIT): Aura Open source PCB to be used on any ASIC. Designed to handle a wide range of voltage so it can easily be modified to match any upcoming ASICs.
Project Homepage: Aura Miner - Universalish PCB Project